There are several useful ways to distribute into *n *bins -- equal-sized
bins, equally-spaced bins, near-equal-sum bins (with various definitions of
near-equal), etc.
As far as I know, there are no standard functions to do this, but any of
these should be easy enough to program in the Maxima language.
-s
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Ed Romana <erom at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> ~~~
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> Is there a Maxima function that distributes a long list of m floats in to
> n bins
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> Something like: ldistrib( list, number_of_bins)
>
> returns list of n pairs [[bin_center, bin_sum],...]
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>
> e
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> ~~~
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